Debate has long been a hallmark of the academic endeavor. The recent introduction of computers into academic life has not been the deus ex machina to bring sudden resolution to these debates. There is a new computing technology, however, that has some promise in this regard. It is called conceptual modeling. This paper' demonstrates how a computer-based model of a problem domain can lead to consensus when competing approaches to the domain can be encapsulated in different visual models that are applied to the same underlying conceptual model.